Sentence examples for surrender of that from inspiring English sources

For some, Dujardin embodies a certain idea of French cinema; for others, he represents the surrender of that idea to American tastes.

Iain Duncan Smith, the former work and pensions secretary, said that by backing the remain campaign Obama was asking British citizens to accept a surrender of sovereignty that Americans would never be willing to contemplate.

You can feel somehow that it does not rise up from that place of surrender, of knowing that one is both powerful and deeply insignificant.

It is an astonishing display of the repeated surrender of power that should disqualify him from being called a politician.

Of course, if you're not in control of those points, you essentially surrender control of that information.

And if we simply surrender all of that to the judgement of individual officials inside these secret agencies then we have already lost the important battle that we are fighting".

And we knew, instantly, that this was not the World War II, ceremonial, broken sword across the knee kind of surrender, but rather, it was a hand delivered, door to door, in the language and cadence that only the heart could understand, good kind of surrender; the kind of surrender that lovers experience at first sight and Billy Joel once sang and Long Island swooned about.

Although some historians credit this action with Prevost's decision to withdraw back toward Savannah the next day (despite ongoing negotiations of a possible surrender of Charleston), that decision is more likely based on news Prevost received that Lincoln's larger force was returning to Charleston to face him, and that Prevost's troops had gone further than he had originally intended.

He sympathetically describes her jitters as she let herself be made up to appear older and harsher than she really looked, a surrender of vanity that preceded by decades Nicole Kidman's in "The Hours" and Charlize Theron's in "Monster".

In the surrender of exhaustion that loosens every grip.

A key advisor, Jia Xu, had recommended after the surrender of Liu Cong that the overtaxed armies be given time to rest and replenish before engaging the armies of Sun Quan and Liu Bei, but Cao Cao disregarded the advice.